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12 Oct, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Higher and higher levels of madness coming from the US every day. Now it’s pilots demanding the right to enter commercial aircrafts without a test or vaccine and risk infecting everyone — and going on strike and leaving thousands of planes grounded to demand that right
Seems that the US simply does not want to move beyond Covid. In Portugal where I am, Covid is the past. In the US it grounds thousands of planes and people cannot go to their family holidays. Love of drama? How to explain it?
Vaccines are a percentages game. If the pilot is vaccinated and I am vaccinated my elder relatives who are vaccinated are extremely unlikely to get Covid when I meet them after my flight. If the pilot is not, percentage goes up a bit. If I am not, a bit more…
Seeing some of these videos by pilots tonight, I have to wonder if they should be flying airplanes at all

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14 Oct
When I moved to the US in 2000 it seemed obvious to me the center of most intellectual debates in the world was there. How much changed in 20 years
Unless you want to improve your knowledge of the links between racism and fried chicken not sure why a young person would move to the US at all. If things like crypto I would prefer Singapore…
Personally I am interested in the debate on the metaverse and virtual reality and think it is centered in the US. But on the whole it takes 20% of my time. Other critical debates centered in India, China, Russia, Europe, Turkey, etc. And these you miss entirely if only US
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2 Oct
Another criticism my New Statesman cover piece got was: how can I take tech billionaires so seriously? Well, first, the piece does not take them that seriously, there are many passages mocking them, gently or even less gently…
Second, what I take seriously is the billionaire as a type, while arguing that most examples fall short of the type? Most examples or all examples? Well, to answer that you need to read the piece rather carefully, even between the lines
Third, even with all these caveats, where exactly do you get bold ideas today? Yes, you may laugh at Neuralink, Blue Origin, the Metaverse, etc — but are statesmen, artists, writers coming up with something even remotely at same scale of ambition?
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2 Oct
No one can think it is normal to send this letter before cancelling the whole deal an hour or two later
At first I was puzzled the Australian government had leaked it — does not help their case at all — but now I see it was released under an FOI
Basically what the letter says is that the exit from the review has been completed and work will proceed according to Reference A (redacted, but I imagine an earlier letter specifying the procedure to continue work)
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2 Oct
US is committing a serious strategic error by thinking rest of the world shares its fixation on China and is willing to sacrifice everything to contain China
I could give hundreds of examples but just one for now: EU officials disappointed US wants to talk only China in new transatlantic tech council; there are many tech issues between US and EU
The whole thing becomes comical when Washington tells Paris: forget the submarines, focus on China
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27 Sep
Do you want me to tell you what wokeness is in a way that will suddenly illuminate the whole phenomenon like a lightening in the darkest night?
Think of the metaverse. The oasis, for example, in Ready Player One. Wokeness is a far left metaverse. First you have the intricate programming that builds a social justice utopia in the metaverse, but it’s all a virtual world of course.
Within the metaverse social justice is the only game. Rewards and punishments are met accordingly. You can be cancelled (life lost), as you can accumulate points and a high score (top scorer!)
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25 Sep
Turns out that Indian officials are quite unhappy about Aukus. Can’t say I’m surprised
thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/…
“If Australia and the U.S. could deceive France, a North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) partner, they ask, what is to prevent them from doing the same with lesser allies?”
“Washington’s willingness to help Canberra build SSNs raises the possibility that Australia could deploy nuclear submarines in the Eastern Indian Ocean well before India positions its own.”
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